A placid scene of sea and sky.
But surely a giant shark floats by!
Surely I see a monstrous fin!
Against such a creature we cannot win!
In such terrible situations
Concentrate on the cloud formations!
It almost becomes your bounden duty
To fill your mind with surrounding beauty!
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15 comments:

I'm with you all the way, Rinkly.Schooldays are supposed to be the happiest days of our lives, but for me it's retirement. Look at me - it's 9 am and I'm luxuriating under the duvet with the laptop perched on top. You can't beat it, creaky bits notwithstanding.

A few years ago I realized that my grandmother had lived all those years after I was born - through my childhood and adolescence, through my young adulthood, my years of parenting small children and moving toward middle age... she lived those years to and what did she choose to fill them with? Did she change and grow and learn as much during that same duration of time? When my teenage son thinks it is his turn to vote and I should sit back now I think - hey, I will live longer than you have already lived and I will darned if I am going to sit back and shut up and let you drive my life... sorry for the rant you sparked :-)

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Born in England in 1931. Evacuated in World War 2. Trained as a teacher at Brighton Training College, Sussex. Taught in London. Moved to Zimbabwe. Seven years later worked on a mail ship. Married Malcolm in Capetown. Two children, Rebecca and Greg. Moved to Australia in 1974. After retirement worked for a publisher. Three grandsons, Blake, Harry and Max. Disabled by stroke in 2013. Now in wheelchair with husband as carer..